Carl Bernstein: Biden's debate melt down was not a "one off"

Journalist Carl Bernstein is calling President Biden’s debate performance against former President Trump last week a “horror show” and said his sources close to the commander in chief say what happened is not a one-time problem.

Bernstein said he’s been talking to several sources who are near Biden, those who love him, support him and raised money for his reelection, but they are “adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off.”

“There have been 15 to 20 occasions in the last year and a half when the President has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed,” Bernstein told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday evening. “And what’s so significant is that the people that this is coming from, and also how many people around the president are aware of such incidents.”

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This can't go on. For the sake of the country, the president needs to stand aside and end his ill-considered bid for reelection. The decline in the president's health is clearly serious and likely to accelerate. Setting aside the obvious fact that he is unlikely to be able to defeat Donald Trump, which would be catastrophic, Mr. Biden is simply unfit to be president for another four years. The frantic denials from the White House are reminding me of 1944 when those around FDR knew he was gravely ill and went to great lengths to cover it up. In the increasingly improbable event that Biden is reelected, we should all understand that the next president is almost certain to be Kamala Harris.